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He had heard only Neddy's last exclamation, not the cautious whispers previously exchanged between him and Mike; he thought that the man astride the window-sill himself had kicked something and instinctively exclaimed, "What the devil's that?"
Maybe I won't remember your kindness if ever I find you in hardship; and where in the world are you all going?" "We're going to seek our fortune till the harvest comes in; you may join our party if you like, and sit on Neddy's crupper when your legs and wings are tired."
Harry held the halter all ready to slip over Neddy's head, and in another moment he would have been captured but for the pony, who, seeing the danger of his companion, gave a loud neigh and started off full gallop across the field.
He and Robin had walked up all the way from Abersethin through the surf, carrying their shoes under their arms. "'Twill freshen thy feet, and make them hard for the candles," said Robin. Neddy's thin haggard face, surmounted by a thick crop of grizzled curly hair, lighted up with pleasure as he felt the warm air of the roasting room.
"Barring accidents, let's say this day week; meanwhile, Neddy" he smiled as he interjected. "Neddy is our chauffeur Neddy and I will make our little plan of attack." "Don't be too generous! Don't leave all the V.C. chances to me," the Sergeant implored. "Neddy's fair glutton for 'em! Difficulty is to keep him from murder! And he stands six foot four, and weighs seventeen stone."
When the year had passed, she called him to her, and said she had good wages for him. So she presented him with an ass out of the stable, and he had but to pull Neddy's ears to make him begin at once to ee aw! And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and half crowns, and golden guineas.
I must own to having felt some doubts on the subject of Neddy's compliment at the time. Since this little experience, I have been more careful how I answer the petitions of my children; and avoid the "May be so," "I'll see about it," and other such evasive answers that come so readily to the lips. The good result I have experienced in many instances.
"No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." But morn reveals unsuspected truths, and wrinkled invisible in the light of tallow candles. The first rays of the rising sun fell on Neddy's ghastly face, and the "conditional pardon" man said, "Why, he's dead and cold."
Nobody was ever fonder of fun than my husband, yet surely there never was a better man." "Oh! Neddy's all right. Trouble is to keep him from thinkin' so himself. But, there. Why don't you eat your dinner? You haven't more'n half touched it. It's a shame to waste good victuals, and these are good. I fixed 'em myself."
Big Neddy's eyes had not followed his comrade to the door; they had been held by the queer hole and its queer contents by the gleaming gold that strewed its floor, by the mock symbol of majesty which he had lifted from it and still held in his hand, by the oddly suggestive shape and dimensions of the hole itself.
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